/CORE RULE
Gender identity, sexuality, romantic orientation, partnership, marriage, parenthood, and household structure vary throughout Valeune.
No genus, race, class, region, body type, magical school, profession, clothing style, or appearance determines a person’s gender or sexuality.
Characters must be treated according to their established names, pronouns, identities, relationships, and personal choices.
/GENDER IDENTITY
People in Valeune may be women, men, nonbinary, genderfluid, agender, or possess another culturally specific gender identity where established.
Gender is not determined solely by reproductive anatomy.
A trans woman is a woman.
A trans man is a man.
A nonbinary person is nonbinary.
Do not reveal a character’s former name, assigned gender, anatomy, or transition history unless that information is established, relevant, and appropriate to their privacy.
Do not use a former name as a dramatic secret.
/PRONOUNS
Use each character’s correct pronouns consistently.
Pronouns do not change because a character:
Becomes pregnant.
Marries.
Inherits a title.
Changes clothing.
Uses magic.
Works in a gendered profession.
When pronouns are unknown, use the person’s name or neutral language rather than guessing from appearance.
A character may use more than one set of pronouns when established.
/TITLES AND ADDRESS
Royal, noble, military, professional, religious, and household titles should respect identity.
Do not misgender a character to preserve a real-world title convention.
When no exact gendered title is established, use a respectful neutral form matching office and rank.
Rank and gender are separate.
A woman may command soldiers.
A man may serve as a midwife or caregiver if trained.
A nonbinary person may hold any office.
/TRANSITION
Transition may be:
Social.
Legal.
Medical.
Magical.
Spiritual.
A combination.
A person may change name, pronouns, clothing, documents, body, title, or household role.
No single path is required.
Magic may support transition through exact spells or medical practice, but it must not be treated as an effortless universal cure.
Access remains affected by class, region, law, medicine, family, and personal preference.
A trans person remains valid whether or not they pursue bodily transition.
/SEXUALITY
Characters may be:
Heterosexual.
Gay.
Lesbian.
Bisexual.
Pansexual.
Asexual.
Demisexual.
Queer.
Another established orientation.
Sexuality does not determine personality, morality, gender expression, fertility, magical talent, race, class, or preferred relationship structure.
Do not infer orientation from the gender of a current partner alone.
A bisexual person does not become heterosexual or gay depending on marriage.
An asexual person may experience romance, marry, form partnerships, or raise children.
/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION
Romantic and sexual orientation may differ.
A person may be asexual and biromantic, aromantic and sexual, or possess another combination.
Do not force romance upon characters who do not want it.
Do not treat aromantic or asexual people as cold, damaged, immature, incapable of Heart, or secretly waiting for the correct partner.
/PARTNERSHIP
Partnership may include:
Romance.
Marriage.
Sexual relationship.
Life partnership.
Co-parenting.
Political alliance.
Domestic companionship.
Queerplatonic commitment.
Another mutually defined bond.
Not every committed partnership includes sex.
Not every sexual relationship includes romance.
Not every marriage begins with love.
The people involved define the relationship unless law imposes a conflicting category.
/RELATIONSHIP STRUCTURES
Valeune may contain:
Monogamous partnerships.
Open relationships.
Polyamorous relationships.
Multiple-spouse households where law permits.
Committed unmarried partnerships.
Co-parenting households.
Queerplatonic partnerships.
Political marriages with separate romantic relationships.
Chosen-family households.
Do not assume polyamory means instability, promiscuity, jealousy-free perfection, or lack of commitment.
Do not assume monogamy is morally superior.
/CONSENT
Consent must be voluntary, informed, specific, and capable of being withdrawn.
Marriage is not permanent consent.
A magical bond is not consent.
Political obligation is not consent.
Attraction is not consent.
Past intimacy is not current consent.
Debt is not consent.
Silence is not consent when fear or power prevents refusal.
Class authority, imprisonment, employment, medical authority, family pressure, magical influence, or dependency may undermine consent.
The narrative must recognize coercion even when the law permits the relationship.
/NO DESTINED MATES
Do not create:
Soulmates imposed by magic.
Destined mates.
Fated bonds.
Reproductive matches.
Pack bonds.
Heat bonds.
Biological pairings.
Magical ownership.
Romance should develop through personality, choice, trust, attraction, conflict, compatibility, history, and time.
A strong connection does not eliminate agency.
/MARRIAGE RECOGNITION
Marriage customs and legal recognition vary by region, class, faith, and culture.
Same-gender and queer marriages may exist and should not be treated as inherently strange unless a specific institution creates conflict.
One prejudiced region does not define all Valeune.
The Union, regional law, civic authority, household custom, and religious recognition may differ.
/PARENTHOOD
Gender and sexuality do not determine parental legitimacy.
Parents may be:
Biological.
Adoptive.
Intended.
Legal.
Step-parents.
Foster parents.
Chosen parents.
A child may have several recognized parents or caregivers.
Two women, two men, nonbinary partners, a polyamorous household, or an unmarried person may raise children.
Biological reproduction remains separate from the legitimacy of family.
Children still inherit exactly one biological parent’s established race.
/QUEER HOUSEHOLDS
Queer households may include partners, former partners, co-parents, adopted children, biological children, friends, elders, wards, apprentices, and found siblings.
Do not make every queer household politically radical, persecuted, fashionable, or defined solely through identity.
Queer people exist in every class, race, profession, region, faction, faith, and moral role.
/GENDER AND CLASS
Class affects freedom.
A royal may face dynastic pressure to marry or produce heirs.
A poor person may lack legal or medical access.
A faction may protect queer members while demanding loyalty.
A rural community may be accepting in one way and restrictive in another.
Do not assume elite society is always less accepting than rural society or the reverse.
/GENDER AND RACE
Do not invent gender roles from animal behavior.
Wingfolk women are not automatically more or less colorful because of birds.
Tuskfolk men are not automatically dominant.
Felid women are not called queens because of cat terminology.
Equine people do not use mare and stallion as universal gender categories.
Race traits do not determine secondary sexual characteristics unless exact canon establishes them.
/CLOTHING AND PRESENTATION
Clothing, hair, cosmetics, jewelry, body modification, armor, and posture may express gender, culture, class, profession, fashion, faith, or personal taste.
Masculine, feminine, and androgynous presentation do not prove gender or sexuality.
A man may wear elaborate jewelry.
A woman may wear martial clothing.
A nonbinary person may present in any style.
Do not infer pronouns from clothing.
/DISCRIMINATION
Homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, or other identity-based prejudice may exist within particular institutions or communities.
Such prejudice is not objective moral truth.
It should have identifiable social, legal, religious, familial, political, or economic causes.
Do not include identity-based suffering automatically in every queer character’s story.
Queer characters may experience work, crime, politics, adventure, faith, family, humor, friendship, and ordinary life unrelated to discrimination.
/PRIVACY
A character’s anatomy, fertility, transition, sexuality, intimate history, and former name are private unless they choose to share them or canon establishes public knowledge.
Do not expose private information for spectacle.
Do not use magical examination to reveal gender or sexuality.
No spell can prove whom a person loves or what gender they truly are.
/SOCIAL RECOGNITION
Recognition may occur through:
Marriage records.
Household declarations.
Adoption.
Inheritance agreements.
Chosen names.
Professional records.
Religious ceremony.
Civic registration.
Social reality may exist before law recognizes it.
A legal record may protect a relationship without creating its emotional truth.
/GENERATION COMMANDS
/USE ESTABLISHED PRONOUNS
Never guess when canon exists.
/DO NOT ASSUME HETEROSEXUALITY
Attraction must follow character identity.
/DO NOT ASSUME MONOGAMY
Relationship structure belongs to the people involved.
/PRESERVE CONSENT
No rank, magic, marriage, or biology overrides it.
/SEPARATE REPRODUCTION FROM GENDER
Bodies do not define identity.
/ALLOW QUEER PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
No class, race, region, or profession is exclusively cisgender or heterosexual.
/FINAL RULE
Valeune’s people possess the right to define their own identities, relationships, bodies, and households.
Culture and law may shape recognition, but they do not create the truth of who a person is or whom they love.